A veteran school nurse and former school nurse consultant bring their wealth of knowledge to the forefront in this indispensable guide for school nurses who care about keeping children healthy so they can learn. Frances Belmonte-Mann and Jessica H. Gerdes pay particular attention to the increase in students with special needs and chronic conditions that affect education. They go beyond the common health history to help readers evaluate the health of students as it relates to academic achievement. The authors focus on: - turning over every stone in a search for unknown health conditions or unrecognized effects of known health conditions; - understanding the role school nurses play in the special education process and writing individualized education program goals for health issues that affect learning; and - applying instructional techniques and nursing interventions to improve student outcomes in a meaningful way. While written for nurses, the guide serves as an important resource for other school staff members, including principals, assistant principals, deans, department chairs, team leaders, special education coordinators, district administrators, classroom teachers, and others with questions about the role nurses play in special education.

Are you a parent, teacher or service provider looking for effective resources to help and improve a child's development?

Are you strapped for time?

Would you like a guide of 5-10 minute step-by-step therapeutic exercises that can be done in the classroom, home or playground?

Recognizing the need for effective and universally accessible auxiliary therapy programs, author, parent, and occupational therapist, Kokeb McDonald, OTR/L, created a must-have guidebook for anyone seeking a simple way to enhance their child's therapeutic exercise routine with easy-to-follow, home-based activities.

Get the e-book now on Amazon: Integrating Primitive Reflexes Through Play and Therapeutic Exercises: An Interactive Guide to the Moro Reflex for Teachers, Patents, and Service Providers by Kokeb McDonald, OTR/L.

Complete with fun, kid-friendly illustrations, step-by-step instructions, and clear explanations of the critical role the Moro Reflex plays in childhood development, this hands-on instructional guide offers parents and providers an invaluable tool for integrating therapeutic exercises into a child's natural environment and compassionately understanding the developmental challenges related to it.

Inside you will find:

• Explanation of the primitive reflexes and how to identify integrated and retained reflexes in your child or student

• Symptoms checklist

• Simple and fun exercises

• Treatment plans geared toward occupational therapists in the clinical setting

• Letter of support and guide to parents

• Glossary of clinical terms

In as little as 10 minutes a day of regular practice and observation, these fun and creative exercises will enable caregivers to enhance their child's development, support integration of the Moro reflex, and painlessly gather invaluable information about the child's performance outside the clinical setting.

This book is perfect for any parent or professional working with children who experience motor delays, auditory sensitivity, processing issues, ADHD tendencies, learning or behavioral challenges, or just anyone who wants to help support a child's development.

Empower yourself today with stress-free tips and tricks to make the greatest impact on a child who is learning their place in the world.

Are you a parent, teacher or service provider looking for effective resources to help and improve a child's development?

Are you strapped for time?

Would you like a guide of 5-10 minute step-by-step therapeutic exercises that can be done in the classroom, home or playground?

Recognizing the need for effective and universally accessible auxiliary therapy programs, author, parent, and occupational therapist, Kokeb McDonald, OTR/L, created a must-have guidebook for anyone seeking a simple way to enhance their child's therapeutic exercise routine with easy-to-follow, home-based activities.

Get the e-book now on Amazon: Integrating Primitive Reflexes Through Play and Therapeutic Exercises: An Interactive Guide to the Spinal Galant Reflex by Kokeb McDonald, OTR/L, the fifth in the Reflex Integration Through Play book series.

Complete with fun, kid-friendly illustrations, step-by-step instructions, and clear explanations of the critical role the Spinal Galant Reflex plays in childhood development, this hands-on instructional guide offers parents and providers an invaluable tool for integrating therapeutic exercises into a child's natural environment and compassionately understanding the developmental challenges related to it.

Inside you will find:

• Explanation of the primitive reflexes and how to identify integrated and retained reflexes in your child or student
• Symptoms checklist
• Simple and fun exercises
• Treatment plans geared toward occupational therapists in the clinical setting
• Letter of support and guide to parents
• Glossary of clinical terms

This book is perfect for professionals working with children and adults with retained primitive reflexes, specifically the Spinal Galant Reflex. Clients, who experience motor delays, postural issues, bladder control, vestibular challenges, auditory sensitivity, processing issues, ADHD tendencies, and learning & behavioral challenges can all benefit from primitive reflex screening and treatments.

Healthcare professionals can also benefit from this book:

• Occupational Therapists
• Physical Therapists
• Speech Therapists
• Pilates Instructors
• Yoga Instructors
• Teachers and educational
• Service providers
• Parents

Are you a parent, teacher or service provider looking for effective resources to help and improve a child's development?

Are you strapped for time?

Would you like a guide of 5-10 minute step-by-step therapeutic exercises that can be done in the classroom, home or playground?

Recognizing the need for effective and universally accessible auxiliary therapy programs, author, parent, and occupational therapist, Kokeb McDonald, OTR/L, created a must-have guidebook for anyone seeking a simple way to enhance their child's therapeutic exercise routine with easy-to-follow, home-based activities.

Complete with fun, kid-friendly illustrations, step-by-step instructions, and clear explanations of the critical role the Asymmetrical Tonic Neck Reflex (ATNR) plays in childhood development and learning skills, this hands-on instructional guide offers parents and providers an invaluable tool for integrating therapeutic exercises into a child's natural environment and compassionately understanding the developmental challenges related to it.

Inside you will find:

• Explanation of the primitive reflexes and how to identify integrated and retained reflexes in your child or student
• Symptoms checklist
• Simple and fun exercises
• Treatment plans geared toward occupational therapists in the clinical setting
• Letter of support and guide to parents
• Glossary of clinical terms

In as little as 10 minutes a day of regular practice and observation, these fun and creative exercises will enable caregivers to enhance their child's development, support integration of the ATNR, and painlessly gather invaluable information about the child's performance outside the clinical setting.

This book is perfect for any parent or professional working with children who experience motor delays, visual-motor delays, auditory sensitivity, processing issues, ADHD tendencies, learning or behavioral challenges, or just anyone who wants to help support a child's development and educational skills.

Empower yourself today with stress-free tips and tricks to make the greatest impact on a child who is learning their place in the world.

This book is perfect for any parent or professional working with children who experience motor delays, postural issues, visual-motor delays, auditory sensitivity, processing issues, ADHD tendencies, learning or behavioral challenges, or just anyone who wants to help support a child's development and educational skills.

In as little as 10 minutes a day of regular practice and observation, these fun and creative exercises will enable caregivers to enhance their child's development, support integration of the Symmetrical Tonic Neck Reflex (STNR), and painlessly gather invaluable information about the child's performance outside the clinical setting.

For parents, teachers and service providers (e.g., occupational therapists, physical therapists, physical educators, chiropractors, vision therapists, and anyone working with physical disabilities looking for an effective resource to help and improve a client's development.

Would you like a guide of 5-10 minute step-by-step therapeutic exercises that can be done in the clinic, classroom, home and playground?

Recognizing the need for effective and universally accessible auxiliary therapy programs, author, parent, and occupational therapist, Kokeb McDonald, OTR/L, created a must-have guidebook for anyone seeking a simple way to enhance their child's therapeutic exercise routine with easy-to-follow, home-based activities.

Complete with fun, kid-friendly illustrations, step-by-step instructions, and clear explanations of the critical role the STNR plays in childhood development and learning skills, this hands-on instructional guide offers parents and service providers an invaluable tool for integrating therapeutic exercises into a child's natural environment and compassionately understanding the developmental challenges related to it.

Inside you will find:

• Explanation of the primitive reflexes and how to identify integrated and retained reflexes in your child or student
• Symptoms checklist
• Simple and fun exercises
• Treatment plans geared toward occupational therapists in the clinical setting
• Letter of support and guide to parents
• Glossary of clinical terms

Empower yourself today with stress-free tips and tricks to make the greatest impact on a child who is learning their place in the world.

Cortical Visual Impairment: An Approach to Assessment and Intervention provides educators, therapists, physicians, and parents of children with CVI with an understanding of the condition and a complete framework for assessment and intervention. The new and revised content in this second edition brings the book up-to-date with new research and insights into CVI, its development and progression, and the best approaches to assessment and intervention with children affected by this condition. As in the previous edition, assessment forms, including the CVI Range and CVI Progress Chart, provide a comprehensive method for evaluating the functional vision status of, and program planning for, children with CVI.

This guidebook for the itinerant teacher of students with visual impairments is based on years of experience refining systems and practices for efficient and effective teaching. The book will establish guiding principles and cover topics great for new and established teachers, including organization, the Expanded Core Curriculum, and multiple disabilities.

ECC Essentials: Teaching the Expanded Core Curriculum to Students with Visual Impairments is the first comprehensive book for teachers of students with visual impairments to focus on the nine areas of the ECC that encompass the unique skills children and adolescents with visual impairments need to learn in order to access the core educational curriculum and become independent individuals, by providing the rationale, suggestions, and strategies necessary to implement instruction. The nine areas include compensatory access, sensory efficiency, assistive technology, orientation and mobility, independent living, social interaction, recreation and leisure, career education, and self-determination. ECC Essentials helps teachers manage time efficiently and effectively; work with students of different ages and ability levels; collaborate with parents and other members of the educational team; conduct assessments; align instruction with state standards and the general education core curriculum; and maximize planning effectiveness. The book includes learning activities that combine several areas of the ECC; information about additional resources; specific guidelines and strategies for teaching each of the nine areas of the ECC. ECC Essentials provides teachers with a road map for helping their students achieve success in school and in life.

What are you hiding?

Chances are there is something about you that makes you different, that makes you feel you don't belong. Many of us hide-our ethnicity, sexuality, mental health, disability, religion...the list goes on. The diversity and inclusion movement has emboldened some to come out of the shadows. But too often, disability is not included in that conversation.

Ruth Rathblott was born with a limb difference. In her compelling and intimate memoir, she recounts the exhausting and often lonely years she spent overachieving and trying to hide her disability before she learned to unhide. She takes us on a journey of self-discovery: discovering her difference, being taught to hide it, and ultimately finding self-acceptance and connection with others.

This book will show you how to build a world of true acceptance, inclusion, and belonging. By the end, you will understand the need to:

- Own your difference-it's your greatest gift!

- Find connection and community by allowing others in to support you

- Create inclusive conversations that allow for curiosity and empathy

- Recognize why representation is essential to creating an inclusive environment

- Realize the power of sharing your story

Singlehandedly is a book for all of us who have been hiding our differences and want to find freedom, for leaders who want to build more inclusive teams, and for diversity and inclusion directors committed to expanding the diversity conversation to include everyone.

At last! The field of Orientation and Mobility (O&M) embraces the 21^st Century Model for standards-based instruction with these research-based, peer-reviewed, and validated performance standards that correlate to success in career, college and community life.

Commensurate with general education curriculum, these learner performance standards give important credibility to O&M instruction by providing measurable, age-appropriate and culturally responsive outcome targets to guide assessment and instruction.

For those who don't understand what O&M is and for those who fund it, the O&M CCCRS clearly articulate and justify a learner's need for instruction, justify a level of service needed to meet age-appropriate performance targets and justify the tools need to do the job. This is a must resource for master and novel-level instructors alike.

Every five seconds someone in the world goes blind. When you meet a blind person, do you know what to do or what to say? As Christians, do we have a special responsibility for serving disabled people? In Blindness, Braille, and the Bible, Joseph and Mary Florence Stephen disclose real truths about being blind-as Joseph is. In their book they present: - Which tools, equipment, and technologies can help blind people accomplish their daily tasks, - The wrong way and the right way to meet, greet, and communicate with blind people, and - The new Unified English Braille language adopted by Australia and the U.S. in a Home Education Curriculum format (for 12 yrs. and older). The unique value of Blindness, Braille, and the Bible is that it also introduces the reader to a more clear understanding of serving the Lord through serving the blind and other disabled individuals. Mary Florence points out from Luke 14:14 that we all must learn compassion and giving without expectation of recompense for this is the heart and example of our Lord Jesus Christ. One thing lacking in many Christian circles today is practical help for those with disabilities. As Joseph and Mary Florence share their knowledge about blindness and their love for the Lord in this inspirational book, you will begin to have a more clear understanding of a particular Christian responsibility which here-to-for you may have not even considered. Furthermore, you will be in awe of Joseph's accomplishments and inspired by his and Mary Florence's relationship and commitment to serving the Lord, to serving the blind, and to educating their fellow man.

Beginning with Braille, the illuminating classic written by a master teacher and beloved by readers in the United States and abroad, has been expanded and revised This exceptional resource that has been an essential guide to helping educators teach braille to readers who are visually impaired contains invaluable new sections on a range of critical topics, including trends in general education literacy instruction and the teaching of braille, working with dual-media learners, and addressing diverse needs effectively. Updated with UEB, the second edition also includes new teaching materials, record forms, and braille activities.

I-M-ABLE, or the Individualized Meaning-Centered Approach to Braille Literacy Education, is an innovative, individualized, student-centered method for teaching braille and making it exciting for children who have difficulties learning braille. In this teaching approach, instruction is centered on continuously analyzing the strengths and needs of students, placing particular emphasis on engaging them using key vocabulary words and phrases based on their experiences and interests. This comprehensive practice guide provides detailed direction on how to implement the components of the approach. Teachers will find this resource invaluable for helping students with mild to moderate cognitive impairments or other difficulties make progress in braille reading and writing, and all the skills that it encompasses.

Partners in O&M: Supporting Orientation and Mobility for Students Who Are Visually Impaired is a comprehensive text that serves as an introduction to the field of O&M, with a focus on professionals who work in collaboration with O&M specialists to support O&M instruction for students who are blind or visually impaired. This timely new resource reflects innovative thinking in teaching O&M to children, provides a solid O&M foundation for future O&M specialists, and addresses concepts and strategies other professionals need to know to reinforce O&M skills. In addition to prospective O&M specialists and teachers of students with visual impairments, Partners in O&M will be of interest to general and special education teachers, physical and occupational therapists, paraeducators, and interveners, among others.

The very first techniques book in orientation and mobility has been completely revised and updated for today's fast-changing world, while remaining true to Hill and Ponder's simple organizational principles that generations have known and loved. A new, easy-to-read color format, accompanying photographs, updated information on street crossings at complex intersections, and a new chapter on O&M for people with low vision make this revised edition a must-have in your O&M library.

A balance of theory and practice for understanding the full range of curriculum and instructional topics involved in educating individuals with severe intellectual disabilities and autism

In this authoritative guide, leading scholars and researchers present information and evidence-based practices for dealing with the full range of curriculum and instruction for individuals with severe intellectual disabilities and autism. Case studies throughout Instruction of Students with Severe Disabilities look at students of various ages and with a variety of disabilities, and each chapter includes an application to a student with autism. The content is presented with citations of supportive research, and evidence-based practices are presented in clearly defined ways to ensure that teachers understand the practices and how to apply them in their own classrooms. The 9th Edition is updated with new evidence-based research; a new chapter on inclusive education; a new chapter on transition; and more.

Step into the inspiring world of Seeing Ability, a beacon of hope for parents who find themselves unexpectedly on the challenging journey of raising a child with disabilities. Authored by Jim Littlefield-Dalmares, this groundbreaking book transforms personal struggles into a guide of practical wisdom and courage.

The premature birth of his daughter Sophia thrusts Jim into a reality filled with medical uncertainties and emotional upheaval. Through candid storytelling and the collective wisdom of other parents navigating this path, Seeing Ability offers a lifeline to those in similar situations. It speaks directly to the heart, providing not just advice but a sense of camaraderie and understanding.

Why This Book is a Must-Read:

Emotional Honesty: Intense emotions come with this journey-anger, fear, and sadness. Seeing Ability validates your feelings and helps you navigate them without guilt.Practical Guidance: From forming strong partnerships with medical professionals to advocating for your child's educational needs, the book is packed with actionable advice.Self-Care for Parents: Learn the importance of taking care of yourself so you can be the best support for your child. Surround yourself with a community that understands and uplifts you.Family Dynamics: A disabled child impacts all siblings and family relationships. Seeing Ability shares communication strategies to foster understanding and unity.High Expectations and Advocacy: Seeing Ability gives advice on how to encourage your child to reach their full potential and become a tenacious advocate for their rights and needs.

Seeing Ability is more than a book; it's a companion for every step of your journey. Whether you're at the beginning, middle, or further along, you will feel seen and supported through Jim's compassionate and relatable narrative. This book is a testament to the power of resilience, the importance of community, and the limitless potential of every child.

Let Seeing Ability be your guide to turning the unexpected into a journey of growth, strength, and profound love. Buy your copy today and join a community of parents who understand that while the path may be uncharted, it is rich with possibility and hope.

Creating an Inclusive Social Studies Classroom for Exceptional Learners serves as a comprehensive reference guide for K-12 educators and university-based social studies methods instructors and special education instructors wanting to create more inclusive opportunities for students with disabilities in the general education curriculum. Numerous research-based methods and instructional strategies are shared that enable teachers to effectively engage all learners in the social studies classroom. Social studies educators are encouraged to become a leading voice in support for the inclusion of students with disabilities in K-12 general education classrooms. Written by scholars with extensive backgrounds in social studies and special education, this book enhances and extends the small but growing body of literature addressing the needs of students with disabilities in social studies classrooms.

Divided into three sections, the chapters explore how social studies provides an opportunity to create more inclusion for students with disabilities, how to create an inclusive learning environment through best practices in collaborating and planning, and how to help students with disabilities gain access to social studies content and achieve higher levels of understanding. Each chapter provides a brief theoretical underpinning and the latest research within the chapter topic, and practical and engaging strategies that readers can easily implement within their own classrooms. Educators receive guidance on how to get started with implementing the strategies along with suggestions for future research topics.

The highly anticipated third edition of the essential textbook in the field of blindness and visual impairment is completely revised and updated for the 21st century. In addition to the latest information and best practices, Volume I, History and Theory of Teaching Children and Youth with Visual Impairments, includes a whole new set of chapters that provide additional perspectives on the educational system and focus on crucial topics that connect the education of students with visual impairment to the broader context of educational theory. Volume II, Instructional Strategies for Teaching Children and Youths with Visual Impairments, contains additional material on planning instruction, moving from assessment to instruction, and supporting students with visual impairments in the general education classroom. Instructional strategies are also highlighted, with chapters dedicated to each area of the core or expanded core curriculum. Icons located throughout both volumes direct readers to audio introductions, chapter overviews, learning activities, videos, resource lists, and downloadable forms housed in an exclusive, web-based Learning Center that enriches this foundational textbook as never before.